Poems for a bicultural journey: An interview with Gerrie Fellows

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Notes

1. Some parallels could be drawn here with Keri Hulme’s The Bone People in the opposition of a male hierarchical line of paternal descent and the more fluid female line, which in the case of Hulme emphasizes both her Maori and Pakeha forebears, the latter originally from Orkney, Scotland.

2. However, see Gifford and Riach’s Scotlands: Poets and the Nation (2004) which includes texts by “canonical” as well as multicultural Scottish writers, and MacNeil and Finlay’s Wish I Was Here, which includes work by Scots or Scots‐residents who are of Chinese, Pakistani, Indian or African origin.

3. Originally published as part V of “A Chronicle of Beginnings”, in Gerrie Fellows, The Powerlines (Edinburgh: Polygon, 2000). Reproduced by kind permission of Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd.